V Barratt (they/them) is a trans-media artist living and working on Kaurna land. They have been working in the digital realm, bootstrapping the future, for over 30 years. V has a deep and abiding interest in Mary Beth Dempster’s idea of sympoiesis, the act of “making-with” in open systems of production and the dissolution of artificial boundaries between disciplines, individuals and all other beings. Barratt co-founded cyberfeminist art collective VNS Matrix (1991—ongoing), and continues to work with Matrix member Francesca da Rimini as In Their Interior, and with other accomplices in ongoing collaborations.

V’s work typically arises from a *m/other scrypt* or a  text which is often generative - through analogue or digital means - and this unfurls via video, sound, poetics, performance, and linguistics/vocalities. 

V’s doctoral research focused on panic, affect and deterritorialisation, explored through auto theoretical praxis. The power of affect as a neverending vibration through all things and the existential impact of this is a source of interest,

V is currently working towards the publication of their PhD thesis Beside My Self.

Instagram: @syntacticalchaos